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Fifth Column
Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale, NYU; Columbia cancels in-person classes
2024-04-24
Not new information, but interesting because it’s a Pakistani news site that’s noticing these events in universities across America.
[GEO.TV] Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Paleostinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
continued to reverberate through US university campuses.

The police crackdowns came after Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week.

Demonstrators blocked traffic around Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, demanding the school divest from military weapons manufacturers. Police arrested more than 45 protesters, according to the student-run Yale Daily News.

In New York, officers moved on the NYU crowd shortly after nightfall. Video on social media showed police taking down tents in the protesters' encampment. As demonstrators tussled with officers and chanted, "We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose. Divest."
Posted by:Fred

#2  AOC complained that police were used to break up the "mostly peaceful" protest.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues   2024-04-24 16:16  

#1  Mama don't send your baby to Yale!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-24 01:38  

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